Chest/belly wrap with/without pads to promote crawling and/or keep warm

ABSTRACT

A wrap device covers the chest, belly, or both—partially or entirely or wrapping around to promote crawling, and/or keep body warm. This wrap device has fabric with straps to tie or fasten with a fastening device on the back or side of the torso to hold the wrap on the torso. Fabric is of different thicknesses to provide room and angle for hands/legs to move or push more easily to promote crawling, provide cushion, and/or keep the body warm. Nonremovable or removable pad/pads can be attached to the fabric to further adjust the height of the torso from the ground. Pad/pads can also be of different thicknesses and multiple layers of padding can be added. This wrap device does not just promote baby crawling, but it can also be used for baby, child, or adult to help keep torso/body warm, provide cushion, and help prevent getting sick.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Not Applicable

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a chest/belly wrap device, more specifically a wrap device with fabric (with/without pads attached) covering the torso to promote crawling, provide cushion, and/or keep body warm. This wrap device comprises fabric to cover the chest or belly or both, partially or completely with straps attached to the fabric to tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso to hold the fabric on the torso. Fabric and pad/pads can be of different thicknesses to adjust the height of the torso from ground and give more room and angle for the baby's hands and legs to move or push and thus promote crawling. Fabric and pad/pads can also provide cushion and keep body warm. It can be worn for child older than 7 months and can be worn for adults too to keep body warm.

2. Description of Prior Art

Crawling involves the baby's whole-body translational motion. It is the first and longest period that babies will put weight through their hands and legs to develop strength, and stability. It can help develop a baby's muscle strength, balance, motor skills, and coordination. These are critical elements for a baby's development. Some babies skip crawling completely. Some babies crawl in sideways or use bottom to scoot. These are undesirable for baby's motor skills, balance, and coordination development. Thus, it is important to have devices to help promote or assist crawling. However, most prior art devices for promoting crawling are bulky, not easy to use, and uncomfortable. Also, it is common that blanket/comforter may be kicked off during sleep, and easy to get sick. Most prior art devices to keep body warm have fabric cover or wrap around the whole body or torso (front, back, and side). It is bulky, uncomfortable, difficult to use, and has no air circulation. It is needed to have a device to keep the torso covered (partially or completely) during sleep or anytime to keep the body warm.

U.S. Patent 2012/0284925A1 to D. J. Bennett, is a device with a rigid fabric-covered foam back panel attached with straps wrapped around the infant and secured to the front panel. A chest or belly pad is attached to the front of the baby to encourage the use of arms and legs in crawling.

This device's back panel is wider than the baby's body and extends the full length of the torso. These make it bulky, not easy to use, and uncomfortable. The straps secured to the front panel also limit the location of the pad's attachment to the front panel.

U.S. Patent 2014/0291952A1 to K. Lehman and OH Akron, is a device with a padded U-shaped frame and a set of wheels attached. The U-shaped frame includes a set of stabilizing rods on opposite sides to prevent falling to one side.

The device's wheels and stabilizing rods make it bulky, heavy, not easy to use, and uncomfortable. The height of wheel and U-shaped frame dominate the height of the torso from ground. These make it difficult to adjust the height of the torso (adjust filler thickness in the compartment array opening) from the ground to promote crawling.

U.S. Patent 2008/0047043A1 to Carmen Flores-Garvey is an infant wrapping device with a pair of crawling pants or overalls. It is difficult to wear pants or overalls for infants. This device is also bulky, heavy, and difficult for an infant to move around.

U.S. Patent 2002/6415442 B1 to Brenda M. Smith is a device of a quadrangular sheet of fabric. It has a head aperture, arm apertures, and leg apertures. It is difficult to wear with all these apertures for infants. Also, it covers the whole torso, front, back, and side. It is bulky, has no or little air circulation, and is uncomfortable.

U.S. Patent 2008/0208298 A1 to Hagay Mizrahi is a device of upper body wrap with a cover having upper and lower layers joined at their outer edges with a head aperture. Like previous prior art, it covers the whole torso, and it is bulky, heavy, and uncomfortable.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The objective of the present invention is to provide a wrap device covering part or whole torso to promote crawling and/or provide a cushion. The wrap device can be made with soft fabric (with or without straps attached) to fasten or tie at the back or side of the torso to hold the fabric on the torso. This wrap is lightweight and easy to put on with or without straps. The wrap fabric can be of different thicknesses to adjust the height of the body from ground to create room and angle to facilitate the baby's hand and leg's movement to promote crawling. Single or multiple pads can be attached to the wrap fabric to further adjust the height of the body from ground to provide more room and angle to ground for hands and legs to push and crawl more easily and efficiently. Pad or Pads can be permanently attached like sewing or glue or removable attached to the fabric with fasteners like Velcro, or button or clip or zipper. This wrap/pad device can also provide extra cushion/protection to the torso.

The other objective of the present invention of the wrap (with or without pad/pads) device covering part or whole torso or wrap around torso is to keep body warm during sleep or awake. It is common that a baby or child or even an adult may kick off blanket/comforter or blanket/comforter may fall off from the body during sleep. This is because it easily gets hot and uncomfortable when the body is fully covered with a blanket/comforter and no air circulation to the covered body. With the present invention, wrap fabric with or without pad/pads only covers partially or completely the front of torso (most internal organ residing) to keep the important part of the body warm and have air circulation to other parts of the body. Also, if needed, this device can be used in conjunction with a blanket/comforter to help keep the body warm during sleep.

This wrap device system can be employed not just on babies, it can also be used on children (older than 7 months), or adults to keep the body warm during sleep (avoid getting cold or sick) or awake.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a front view of chest/belly wrap. The chest or belly or both can be partially or completely covered by fabric with straps attached to tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso. Fabric can also wrap around the chest or belly or both and tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso.

FIG. 2 is a front view of chest/belly wrap. Same as FIG. 1 , it is with straps attached to the fabric to tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso. It also has nonremovable or removable single pad or multiple pads attached. The chest or belly or both can be partially or completely covered by the fabric. It can also wrap around the chest or belly or both and tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso.

FIG. 3 shows the top view of chest/belly wrap with a nonremovable or removable single pad or multiple pads.

FIG. 4 shows a back view of chest/belly wrap with a nonremovable or removable single pad or multiple pads.

FIG. 5 shows the top view of chest/belly wrap with nonremovable or removable 1^(st) and 2^(nd) layers of pad/pads.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

With reference to FIG. 1 , this is a front view of chest/belly wrap 10 without a nonremovable or removable single pad or multiple pads. Chest/belly wrap 10 has wrap 20 made of fabric, left strap 31, and right strap 35. Straps 31 and 35 can tie or fasten on the back or side of the torso to keep fabric covering the torso. By adjusting the size of the fabric and fabric location on torso, it can cover torso partially or completely. It can also have fabric wrapping around the torso.

For FIG. 2 , Same as FIG. 1 , this is a front view of chest/belly wrap 10 but with nonremovable or removable single pad or multiple pads. It has pads 41, 42, and 43 attached to wrap fabric 20. Single pad or multiple pads 41, 42, and 43 can be attached to the center or any position on the wrap fabric. Wrap fabric and pad/pads can cover the chest or belly or both, either partially or completely. Straps are tied or fastened (with fasteners like Velcro or clip or button or zipper) on the back or side of the torso.

FIG. 3 is the top view of chest/belly wrap 10 with single pad or multiple pads 41, 42, and 43. Chest/belly wrap 10 has wrap fabric 20, left strap 31, and right strap 35. Pad/pads 41, 42, and 43 are attached on wrap fabric 20. Wrap fabric 20 can be of different thicknesses 21 to adjust the height of the torso from ground. For pad/pads, it can also be with different thicknesses 45 to further adjust the height of the torso from ground.

FIG. 4 is a back view of chest/belly wrap 10 with single or multiple pads 41, 42, and 43.

FIG. 5 is the top view of chest/belly wrap 10 having pad/pads 41, 42, and 43, and with 2^(nd) layer of pad 44 on top of 1^(st) layer of pad 41 to further adjust the height of the torso to ground. This is the same as FIG. 3 with an extra 2^(nd) layer pad 44 attached to 1^(st) layer pad 41 to illustrate pad on top of the pad to have torso further away from ground. Multiple layers of pads on top of pads can be added.

FIGS. 1 to 5 can be used for baby, child, or adult during sleep or awake. The wrap can be customized to cover the torso partially or completely to keep body warm and have air circulation without the whole body covered by a blanket or comforter.

While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that changes and modifications in the form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A wrap device to promote crawling or provide cushion or both, the device comprising: a. A fabric to cover the chest, belly, or both, or any position of the chest and belly; b. Strap having a first end and a second end, wherein said first end is attached to said fabric and said second end comprises a fastener to tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso to the other strap second end fastener with first end attached to the other side of the fabric.
 2. The wrap device of claim 1, wherein said fabric comprises different thicknesses to adjust the height of the torso from the ground.
 3. The wrap device of claim 1, wherein said fabric covers chest, belly, or both, partially or entirely, or wrap-around chest, belly, or both.
 4. The wrap device of claim 1, further comprising removable or nonremovable a single pad or multiple pads attached to the said fabric in the center, side, or any positions on said fabric.
 5. The wrap device of claim 4 wherein said a single pad or multiple pads comprise different thicknesses to adjust the height of the torso from the ground.
 6. The wrap device of claim 4, whereby said removable or nonremovable a single pad or multiple pads are attached with a fastener device on said fabric.
 7. The wrap device of claim 4, further comprises a second layer of single pad or multiple pads attached on top of the said single pad or multiple pads with a fastener device to further adjust the height of the torso from the ground.
 8. A wrap device to keep the body warm or provide cushion or both, the device comprising: a. A fabric to cover the chest, belly, or both, or any position of the chest and belly; b. Strap having a first end and a second end, wherein said first end is attached to said fabric and said second end comprises a fastener to tie or fasten at the back or side of the torso to the other strap second end fastener with first end attached to the other side of the fabric.
 9. The wrap device of claim 8, wherein said fabric comprises different thicknesses to keep the body warm or provide a cushion or both.
 10. The wrap device of claim 8, wherein said fabric covers chest, belly, or both, partially or entirely, or wrap-around chest, belly, or both.
 11. The wrap device of claim 8, further comprising removable or nonremovable a single pad or multiple pads attached to the said fabric in the center, side, or any positions on said fabric.
 12. The wrap device of claim 11, whereby said a single pad or multiple pads comprise different thicknesses to adjust the warmness of the body or cushion or both.
 13. The wrap device of claim 11, whereby said removable or nonremovable a single pad or multiple pads are attached with a fastener device on said fabric.
 14. The wrap device of claim 13, whereby said single pad or multiple pads further comprises a second layer of single pad or multiple pads attached on top of said single pad or multiple pads. 